Dear Authors,

after receiving the comments by three reviewers that were all in favor to publish the paper after minor revisions, please, proceed with revising the manuscript and with integrating your answers to the received suggestions and comments by the reviewers and other short comments into the revised manuscript.

I assume that another round of reviews will not be needed for the revised manuscript. Only an editorial review will follow.

Best rehards,

Matjaž Mikoš
Handling Editor

Dear Authors,

thank you for the revised manuscript where you have answered to the reviewers' comments and suggestions.

After carefully reading the manuscript, I would only have a few technical issues - corrections that are needed prior to accept the manuscript for publication.

The open issues are:
- p. 7, l. 21, the reference Tucker et al. (2005) is missing in the list of the references, please, add it
- p. 8, l. 10, could you add a comment why have you chosen the multiplication factor of 1.2 for E2. Is this simply the value of the annual average ratio of E2 to E1 averaged over all catchments, maybe you could add an explanation that this value is not arbitrary (based on) but exactly this ratio
- p. 20, l. 12 to l. 16, please check the availability of data and change the last access date to the current one for three web pages
- p. 21, l. 31, the year should be the last information, please, type as ", 012006, 2010."
- it seems that you do not refer to Figure 1 in the main text, please, add

Sincerely Yours,

Matjaž Mikoš
handling Editor